Our Language Impasse

[RAO RAMEEZ]

I accept that language, the dialects and style of speaking change after every 30 km in Pakistan. I also accept that this versatility should be seen as "Beauty" not "chaos". But isn't it the biggest reason of "Communication Gap" existing among our different communities. The gap is leading to all these "prejudices" and "superiority or inferiority complexes" in our societies. This prejudice reaches to big cities where people from all the regions of Pakistan dwell.
For example in Karachi there are segregated communities of Punjabis, Sindhis, Pathans, Muhajirs, Shias, Bohris etc and you can clearly see a bit of biased approach here.

You feel a great tide of "prejudice" as you move across the country and that prejudice mainly due to "Communication gap" reinforced by differences in languages and dialects.

[raza92]

It's not the communication gap causing prejudices,but the myopia of common people in Pakistan as well as other countries. We are having no more ethnic and linguistic groups than US and Europe. But they don't showcase these barriers as are obvious in our society. At least they are gentle when speaking to others.. and US also known as "the nation of nations" has no such societal evils as we are facing inter ethnic and linguistic prejudices. my point is, it is not communication barrier but myopia of people. :-)

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[RAO RAMEEZ]

"Most people who spoke a non-English language at home also reported that they spoke English “very well” . Overall, the proportion was 58 percent who spoke “very well,” with another 19 percent who spoke English “well,” 15 percent who spoke “not well,” and 7 percent who spoke English not at all."

https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf

They don't face much impasse as we do.

How "myopia" can cause "prejudice"? Elaborate...

I travel in the whole country and my observation is that Language is a very big barrier... From "Thaith Punjabi" you move to "Janglee" going down to south from Lahore, then Seraiki which is a very different language....Even the script is different with more than 50 alphabets...Then comes the Sindhi...And on reaching Karachi, it is pure "Urdu"...
From Lahore to Rawalpindi there starts Potohari and then after 20 km towards Peshawar it's Pushtu...Just 40 km to D.G Khan towards Balochistan, it's Balochi and Seraiki will be no more comprehensible...

I don't think this happens in America...Try speaking "Urdu" and than observe how they start looking each other from the corner of their eyes...

But I still think like "English Only Movement" we need an "Urdu Only Movement" otherwise this gap will keep on increasing...

Jinnah's decision was on the spot for resolving this matter.

[ahmedkamal]

In my opinion,this superior and inferior complex is appear out due regional political organizations.
ANP (pashtun regional party) do propaganda against Urdu because their major political antagonist is ethnic Urdu speaking political party MQM and due to political opposition;they produce nefarious image of urdu speaking MQM and consider urdu as a language of devil.
same thing is happens in sind, baluchistan.